I know. All german "permium" carmakers are (if you take realibality and costs for maintenance into account). Porsche sells now more (around 75%) rebadged Audis (everything with 4-doors) with y VW engines than real Porsches... they earn 10 times more per vehicle than Audi...
My neighbor had his brand new Audi A6 (company car) 3 months till the lower control arms where exchanged. 3 months later the new control arms did brake on the autobahn...
But the BMW fan is a 80ties design. And in the 80ties and 90ties the quality of the german premium brands was really good. Also this e-fan was made by Siemens and is over-engineered. And there are many people that use this e fan in different cars, if a pusher fan is required and all are happy with it. Especially that it runs in two levels depending on temperature. So it is always running with half the power, when full power is applied... which helps much with life time of a fan.
Beside that it is cheap if used and you even get a repro for less than 100 bucks. And the e-fan fits like a glove.
My neighbor had his brand new Audi A6 (company car) 3 months till the lower control arms where exchanged. 3 months later the new control arms did brake on the autobahn...
But the BMW fan is a 80ties design. And in the 80ties and 90ties the quality of the german premium brands was really good. Also this e-fan was made by Siemens and is over-engineered. And there are many people that use this e fan in different cars, if a pusher fan is required and all are happy with it. Especially that it runs in two levels depending on temperature. So it is always running with half the power, when full power is applied... which helps much with life time of a fan.
Beside that it is cheap if used and you even get a repro for less than 100 bucks. And the e-fan fits like a glove.